https://twitter.com/balagonline/status/1783193093975552284

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Sounds like Kettling. Isn't that like illegal in a lot of places? (We lived it in Toronto at the G7 a decade ago)

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Is it illegal? Maybe. But who's going to punish these people? The governor? The president? The police chief?

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      if there was a state that explicitly has kettling on the books as totally legal and in fact correct to do, it would be Texas

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Houston cops explicitly kettled protesters during the pandemic into an inescapable square with all exits blocked, then pushed in and arrested everyone like twenty minutes before they actually issued an official disperse order

          there are no lawsuits because there are no grounds, it's a fascist state and the shitbag chief of police quit and went to miami where he was fired for being a shitbag

          also the cops who faked a CI tip to get a warrant on a retired couple and then scared themselves because one cop started shooting so every cop started shooting, shooting straight through the tiny poorly constructed (this is not a dunk) house and hitting cops on the other side, causing a full execution of the retirees inside and justifying it because the retirees had like a dimebag of coke, all got off and so did the police chief

          marg bar texas

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, this happened often in my recent day.

        They tried to kettle me several times but fucking pigs FAILED. Do you even cardio, bro?

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Yeah you're right. It's often discussed as "controversial" because as a tactic it can easily violate the human rights of people in the kettle. Apparently Toronto has banned the use of settling, but it looks like that's about it.